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The International Fitness Professionals Association is devoted to offering the highest quality learning experiences to individuals aiming to improve their lifestyle, and those aiming to improve the lifestyles of others. Our educational opportunities provide only the most practical and scientifically based health and fitness information that can be directly applied to “real life” experiences. It is with this dedication that the IFPA is committed to being the lifelong exercise and training res... moreThe International Fitness Professionals Association is devoted to offering the highest quality learning experiences to individuals aiming to improve their lifestyle, and those aiming to improve the lifestyles of others. Our educational opportunities provide only the most practical and scientifically based health and fitness information that can be directly applied to “real life” experiences. It is with this dedication that the IFPA is committed to being the lifelong exercise and training resource to the entire fitness community.
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The world of adapted physical education & sport is continually changing. The Adapted Physical Education & Sport Conditioning Specialist will help you stay abreast of those changes and provide people with disabilities the best physical education possible.
The Adapted Physical Education and Sport Conditioning Specialist begins with foundational topics in adapted physical education and sport, including program organization and management, adapted sport, individualized programs, and instructional strategies. It helps teachers and leaders to plan, assess, prescribe, teach, and evaluate adapted physical education.

The IFPA Flexibility Certification covers the most practical fitness training information to ensure the competency of IFPA certified flexibility coach. The information in the IFPA certification covers the essential principles necessary for all levels of flexibility coaching. Taking the time and effort necessary to truly master these concepts will result in a significant increase in your ability to provide safe and efficient training to your clients.

The IFPA Advanced Functional Trainer Certification is designed to teach the essential knowledge and skills required to train clients in a functionally specific manner. This revolutionary program provides the training theory combined with hundreds of movement demonstrations that will give the personal trainer the the requisite knowledge and practical ability to teach clients better ways to train for functional performance.
Successful students are expected to be capable of understanding the role that the core plays in all movements and thorough knowledge of how to assess, plan, and implement a functionally specific training program for both lifestyle improvement, as well as sport and athletic performance. The IFPA Advanced Functional Trainer certification program will also teach appropriate progressions for both short and long term improvement. Each trainer will have the knowledge to successfully design functionally specific programs with appropriate exercises and progressions.

The Certified Specialist: Advanced Lifestyle Fitness Coach Level I course combines the personal training skills of exercise management with lifestyle coaching skills of counseling, communicating, motivating and educating in order to develop the effective dialogues that are critical to influencing more people to begin and maintain a healthy and fit lifestyle.

One of the biggest problems we have as fitness professionals, trainers and coaches is that we think everyone thinks like we do, is motivated by what motivates us, communicates the same way we communicate and WE ARE WRONG! This course will teach you the different temperament, character, intelligence and personality characteristics of sixteen separate and distinct personalities and the occasional blend of these personalities. This course will teach you the most current and popular personality inventory tests so you can quickly and easily identify the personality of your client (and it wouldn’t hurt for you to learn the intricacies of your own personality before you began working with clients).

The course textbook has been thoroughly revised and updated by a team of veteran teachers who are respected authors in the field of physical education. They’ve included the following new content and helpful features: 70 reproducible lesson plans that students can learn from in class and continue to draw on as they begin their teaching careers A handy lesson plan finder Sidebars with examples of how to put concepts into practice New mastery activities at the end of each chapter A glossary of key terms Expanded ancillaries for course instructors

The IFPA Advanced Sports Nutrition Certification Course provides you with the most current, comprehensive and precise nutritional research, techniques and advice to help your clients maximize efforts in both training and performance. The Advanced Sports Nutrition Course provides the best, results-based information that athletes and everyone in fitness training need to gain an edge physically.
The IFPA Advanced Sports Nutrition Certification Course will help you make sense of all the hype and misinformation that is causing so much confusion among fitness professionals and clients alike. Going far beyond the typical food pyramid formula, this comprehensive course presents cutting-edge nutritional concepts tailored for applications by athletes in any sport and anyone serious about fitness and nutrition. This course breaks down the chemistry of improved performance into winning principles that ensure an athlete’s key energy systems are properly stocked at all times.

Expanded, updated, and packed with new resources, the Applied Body Composition Assessment Certification brings both IFPA Certified Personal Fitness Trainers and students up to date on the latest body composition methods and equations for healthy and clinical populations.
This course has been expanded to include the following:
Equations based on the most recent research
Recommendations reflecting the latest developments in body composition methods
New material on measuring the body composition of clinical populations, including those with cardiopulmonary, metabolic, and wasting diseases and disorders
More comprehensive coverage of the theoretical and scientific bases of body composition assessment, including more extensive coverage of body composition models and reference methods
Several chapters are devoted to each body composition assessment method, including information on its assumptions and principles, prediction models, techniques for use, potential sources of error, and the most recent research on assessing changes in body composition. In addition, the authors discuss how to choose the best method and equations for a variety of healthy populations, as well as the clinical populations noted previously, taking into account age, gender, ethnicity, physical activity level, and disease.
Three appendixes provide practical tips for understanding conversion formulas for two-component models, tables that help you find appropriate methods and equations for your clients, and contact information for equipment manufacturers. More than 60 photos and illustrations complement the text. Personal Fitness Trainers have routinely commented that the course is full of helpful review and summary tools that facilitate absorbing the wealth of information.

Many updates have been made to this course for the benefit of both students and instructors alike. Additionally, the IFPA Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise Specialist Certification provides practical approaches combined with striking visual elements with clear and concise language to encourage active learning and improved comprehension.
This Certification includes:
More sample problems throughout the course to illustrate problem-solving techniques and how to effectively meet the challenges on a daily basis.
A printed quick-reference guide of frequently used equations
An original chapter on technology used in the study of biomechanics
Review questions at the end of each chapter to test the trainer's understanding of important concepts
Becoming an IFPA Biomechanics Specialist is ideal for those needing a deeper understanding of biomechanics from a qualitative perspective. This course not only prepares students to utilize the principles of biomechanics in the physical activity field, it is also extremely easy to understand and apply. If you only take ONE course in Biomechanics, make it the IFPA Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise Specialist Certification course.

Everyone knows they need to exercise, so why don't they do it!?! The reason is not that they are lazy, or don't have the time, money, energy or they need to talk it over with their spouse. The reason is the fitness professionals have never had an effective consulting system to communicate efficiently with everyone. This course will teach you about seven different personality types, how they communicate, what motivates them to take action, how to find out their individual wants, needs, and desires; how to determine how to find the money for a fitness program, how to get them to make a commitment to a fitness program, how you present to each type, and much , much more.
Successful consulting with your potential clients is the "TRUE SECRET TO THE PERSONAL FITNESS TRAINING SUCCESS!!!!"
We are often asked: How do you become a successful Certified Personal Fitness Trainer?
The IFPA Personal Fitness Trainer Certifications Course teaches you everything you need to know to conduct safe and effective personal fitness training sessions and become a personal trainer. The course will teach you all seven phases of personal fitness training (IFPA-PFT) and what you need to keep your clients safe, but the IFPA CFCS is a Specialized Course.
This course will make you a Master of the first part of the critically important first stage of personal fitness training, and that is client consulting and fitness assessment. This Specialized Course will make you a master of the client consulting phase and enable you to sell your personal fitness training services to virtually everyone you talk to!

The Human Performance Assessment Specialist Course provides students with lecture outlines to help them learn the key concepts. The course contains valuable instruction in measurement and evaluation techniques. The course also includes information on epidemiology and also develops international perspectives.
The Certified Human Performance Assessment Specialist features measurement statistics and enhanced efficiency in solving measurement and evaluation problems.

The Kinesiology Specialist gives a great deal of attention to the phenomenon of physical activity. This course will assist students in viewing physical activity in new and exciting ways so you will be able to fully appreciate the importance of the discipline of kinesiology.
The purpose of the Kinesiology Specialist Certification Course is to help you appreciate the breadth and importance of physical activity, to orient you to the discipline of kinesiology and help you understand its relationship to physical activity, and to introduce you to the physical activity professions.

The Kinetic Anatomy Specialist Certification not only discusses the basic concepts of anatomy, it also lays the foundation for students to learn how anatomy affects movement of the human body. The course also discusses regions of the body: the upper extremity, the spinal column, pelvis, thorax, and the lower extremities.
The Kinetic Anatomy Specialist Certification Course contains text on bones, ligaments, muscles, tendons, retinacula, capsules, cartilage, discs, membranes, and other miscellaneous structures. The program includes detailed animations for the shoulder, elbow and forearm, wrist and hand, trunk, hip, knee, and ankle and foot. Each joint has a muscle-action analysis of each fundamental movement of every joint.

The Life Span Motor Development Specialist Certification presents current topics in motor development from a unique approach. Students learn to improve their problem-solving skills by looking not only at the individual but also at the environmental and task factors that may affect growth and motor development. In addition, a life span approach has been integrated throughout the course, illustrating the range of motor skills in humans ranging in age from infants to adults.
The Life Span Motor Development Specialist Certification Course makes it easy for students with little or no background in the movement sciences to understand motor development across the life span. The course contains features that bring the subject to life. It also allows students to have one book for all their coursework relating to motor development.
Here is a brief glimpse of the information you will be reviewing:
Fundamental Concepts of Motor Development
Development and Aging of Body Systems
Development of Ballistic Skills
Interaction of Exercise and Structural Constraints
and much more!!!

The Lifestyle Fitness Coach: Recreation & Leisure Specialist Course introduces students to the foundational history, philosophy, and understanding of the field in relation to the individual and society.
The course also contains information on many different sectors of the field, presenting the multifaceted delivery system through parks, public recreation, nonprofit organizations, commercial recreation and tourism, therapeutic recreation, and unique groups.
The Lifestyle Fitness Coach: Recreation & Leisure Specialist Course also presents the different types of programming found in recreation and leisure services, including recreational sports; fitness, health, and wellness; outdoor and adventure recreation; and arts and culture. The course includes career directions and comes to a close with information on the nature of recreation and leisure as a profession.

IFPA Medical Specialist Certification (MFS) awarded to IFPA Certified Fitness Professionals who successfully complete the Medical Fitness Specialist Certification Program. The program includes:
*IFPA Personal Fitness Trainer Certification Course – Gold Package
*IFPA Special Populations Trainer Certification Course
*IFPA Sports Medicine Certification Course
The Medical Fitness Specialist Certification Program has been developed to provide IFPA Certified Personal Trainers with the knowledge, skills and abilities the will need to train the largest segment of society that suffers from a variety of disease, disability and dysfunction. Many Personal Trainers have adequate skills to train the “Normal” healthy market; those with no medical restrictions to exercise, but most are ill prepared to safely and effectively train people with a medical restriction to exercise programming. The risks are compounded as a greater percentage of society presents with multiple disorders and a variety of restrictions for exercise management.

This course takes students through every phase of curriculum design: foundational understanding of design, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Furthermore, it shows students how to document that their curriculum is working — a valuable asset in an era of budget cuts.
Other special features of The Physical Education Curriculum Specialist Certification: An Achievement-Based Approach include the following:
Opening Scenario, Expected Outcomes, and Making It Work special elements in each chapter to help students understand how to apply the book’s content in school settings and in their future work as teachers or administrators
Instruction on implementing the curriculum and sharing it with others
Strategies for planning, implementing, and evaluating a curriculum and establishing credibility for it
Emphasis on student achievement as an indicator of a quality physical education program
The Physical Education Curriculum Specialist: presents the complete framework for an accountable curriculum that meets the diverse needs of students and the real-world challenges of physical educators.

Research shows that behavioral change and motivation are vital to helping people adopt physically active, healthy lives. Physical Fitness and Wellness Specialist weaves motivational and behavior-changing strategies throughout the course.
The Physical Fitness and Wellness Specialist helps students learn how to change, the course provides much more than just the basics of fitness and wellness. It recognizes that students must consider many factors in attempting to accomplish their fitness and wellness goals. Thus, the Physical Fitness and Wellness Specialist not only addresses traditional aspects of fitness but also explores other influences, such as stress, nutrition, chemicals, injuries, environmental factors, and more. This course also integrates issues of special interest to minorities and women and contains more extensive, updated references.
In addition, the IFPA recognizes that each student is unique and that one fitness and wellness plan does not fit all — so we offer an individualized approach. The Physical Fitness and Wellness Specialist provides strategies to help the unmotivated, sedentary student take that first step to improve health, and strategies for the highly motivated, fit student to meet even higher goals. This course allows each student to do a self-assessment and create goals based on that self-assessment.

You have asked for it! A physical and mental conditioning program that allows you to fully understand the movements. This course will cover the art and science of human movement as it relates to the Pilates Method. Joseph Pilates planted the seeds for what is now a mainstay in fitness centers everywhere.

The Sport Management Specialist Certification Course engages readers by offering a global perspective, current research and developments in the field. This course will provide students with a solid foundation in the field, allowing them to successfully progress through their curriculum toward a career in sport management.
The Sport Management Specialist Certification Course offers a mix of established theory and new thinking. This course contains information on international sport, legal issues, and ethics in sport management. The Sport Management Specialist Certification Course provides information on the increasing globalization of the sports industry, giving readers an understanding of the similarities and differences in sport management practices and applications around the world. By providing real-world examples, readers will be encouraged to broaden their horizons and to view sport management as the global enterprise that it truly is.

The IFPA Advanced Exercise Management Certification Course offers a complete, user-friendly program for developing strategies for fitness and exercise management that meets the needs of every personal training client, from healthy, elite-level athletes to clients with physical, pathological, social, or psychological limitations.
This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to developing, prescribing, and delivering high-quality fitness and exercise programs. In this course, you will explore how to individualize fitness programs to encourage more people to participate in regular physical activity and enjoy the many health benefits. With 70% of the population currently (as of 2008) categorized as morbidly obese, obese, or overweight, the advanced exercise management techniques you will learn in this course are absolutely essential in order to safely and effectively train these special populations.
Even more critical is to master the advanced exercise management techniques provided in this course. This will allow you to safely and effectively manage the additional special population groups, such as those with metabolic syndromes, which consist of glucose intolerance, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, certain cancers, various cardiovascular and cardio-respiratory diseases and more, all resulting from the current Obesity Epidemic. Furthermore, the Obesity Epidemic has created both a Diabetes Epidemic and a Cancer Epidemic.
If you are a serious fitness professional and desire to help more people, or if you crave more knowledge and understanding of the personal fitness training career, then this course is for you.

The Sport Motivation Specialist Certification course provides a thorough introduction to the key concepts in the field. The Course focuses on group interaction and processes and discusses how psychological techniques may be used to help people perform more effectively
The Sport Motivation Specialist Certification addresses the various roles psychological factors play in health and in sports. The course also deals with main topics of psychological development and well-being that are important to both society and sport psychology, including children’s psychological development through sport participation, aggression in sport, and moral development and good sporting behavior in sport and physical activity contexts.
In addition to thoroughly updating the material and including more contemporary examples, this course includes a trend-setting online study guide that provides an interactive learning experience for fitness professionals, trainers, and coaches. This online study guide is written to work directly with the text, and it includes more than 90 learning activities, a variety of retention and assessment tools, audio clips of experts in the field, and video clips of a sport psychologist working with athletes.

This certification will provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the profession. The course draws on the combined wisdom, experience, and technical expertise of 24 professors and leaders in the field, who present diverse perceptions, philosophies, and practices for therapeutic recreation in the 21st century.

The IFPA Fitness Facility Manager Certification is designed to bring professionals business management principals to our industry. This course will also provide the essential operational guidelines that are so critical for the success of your fitness business. Equally important, this course will provide a means for evaluating your existing programs as well as the tools necessary for strategic planning that is critical to your future success.
Taking the time and effort necessary to truly master these concepts will result in a tremendous increase in your ability to effectively manage your fitness facility and programs. Use the many principles and concepts you will learn during this certification program to expand your horizons and improve your ability to incorporate new information into your management repertoire.

The Functional Muscle Training Specialist Certification will teach you the exercises that are most beneficial to various training goals and outcomes as well as providing you with specific training tools to correct imbalances in the body that prevent the optimization of muscle, joint, nerve and biomedical functions.
The enclosed DVD will walk you through the weight training readiness test, demonstrates proper technique for specific weight training exercises, and offers forms and scoring sheets to help you analyze your ability to train your clients effectively.

The IFPA Group Fitness Instructor Certification meets the demand for a current aerobic certification program that covers the foundation for all forms of group exercise instruction including:
*Cardio Kickboxing
*Indoor Cycling
*Military Boot Camp
*Body Sculpting/ Strength Training/ Flexibility
*Step
The IFPA Group Fitness Instructor Certification is designed to teach the essential foundation for leading group fitness classes. This revolutionary program provides the training techniques and safety guidelines that can be applied to all group fitness training programs for healthy adults. Successful students are expected to be capable of leading group-training sessions while providing safe and effective training consultation, coaching and motivation. The IFPA Group Fitness Instructor certification program will also review ways to incorporate motivational techniques and important business techniques to assist in ensuring a successful group fitness program.

Low Back Pain affects over 80% of the population. This IFPA Certification Course presents original research to quantify the forces that specific movement and exercise impose on the low back, dispel myths surrounding spine stabilization exercise and suggests preventive approaches and strategies to offset injuries, reduce pain and restore function.
This course contains extremely useful algorithms to aid exercise prescriptions, program design, guide therapeutic exercise and specially designed patient assessment provocation tests to help you determine the cause of back troubles, guide your choices in the best ways to eliminate problems, and improve the development of appropriate activities for functional gain. Techniques are provided for increasing spine stability dealing with both regional stability or mobility and regional stiffness present in individuals where most of the motion occurs at a single spinal segment.

When you are part of a Military Unit or a Military type unit i.e. Police, Firefighter, Emergency Medical Technician, etc. - YOU HAVE GIVEN UP THE RIGHT TO BE UN-FIT!!! All of the professions have membership in the "Warrior Class" and as such, you must be prepared for a critical situation at anytime. Your calling requires you to have a far superior level of fitness in all of the IFPA "Ten Components of Fitness": Strength, Speed, Power, Anaerobic Endurance, Aerobic Endurance, Agility, Balance, Coordination, Flexibility and Body Composition.
All Warriors must take their physical fitness programming seriously. Initially, aiming for "Physically Fit" will be adequate, but for those "On-the-Line" that may be suddenly thrust into a combat situation, a violent fight with a criminal or a life and death struggle with a raging apartment fire, you must eventually set a goal must higher. You should strive for "Athletic Development"!!
While your clients may never be required to run 26 miles, carrying 80 pounds of metal and armor to the Plain of Marathon, fight all day defeating an army four times their strength, pick up their armor and weapons and run 26 miles back to their city and prepare to fight again - defending it against invasion; They may be required to use their athletic skills to defend their life, their team's life or their country. Since they may never know when the critical moment may come, they MUST ALWAYS BE READY and ALWAYS maintain the highest levels of fitness.

This course does more than simply present the latest research. Instead, it challenges students not only to grasp but also to apply the fundamental concepts of motor performance and learning to a variety of real-world settings, including teaching, coaching, the design of performer-friendly equipment and work environments, rehabilitation, and everyday motor skill learning.
Significantly updated with current research, new learning features, and more references, the fifth edition of Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioral Emphasis expertly combines text, figures, and practical examples to explain this complex topic in a clear and comprehensive manner. This outstanding introduction to the field focuses on motor behavior that can be observed directly as well as the many factors that affect the quality of these performances and the ease with which they can be learned. Additionally, the text examines some of the neurological and biomechanical processes that create complex movement behaviors, reflecting the convergence toward a shared understanding of complex movement behaviors across the fields of motor behavior and motor learning, motor control, and biomechanics.

The IFPA Personal Fitness Trainer Bronze Package is our most basic PFT Certification package. The Bronze package does not include any DVDs or practice materials. If you are a visual learner like many of our members are, then we suggest that you purchase our most popular Silver PFT certification package or any of our other PFT packages.
All IFPA Certifications grant a 6-month study period after which you must take the exam. If you need an extension, please contact your fitness career advisor to discuss your options.
Bronze Package Contents
The IFPA PFT Bronze Package includes:
The Book on Personal Training Textbook
The Book on Personal Training Study guide
105 question (multiple choice) proctored certification exam (mailed directly to proctor)
Free admission to two day workshop (when available)

The IFPA Personal Fitness Trainer Gold Package is our second most popular PFT Certification package because it includes our 7 DVD Instructional Video Set but adds three more very informative videos to help your personal training career. The 7 disc set echoes the concepts reviewed during our Personal Fitness Trainer Workshops so you can follow along in the comfort of your own home. For even more study materials, consider the next level and purchase our Platinum PFT certification package.
All IFPA Certifications grant a 6-month study period after which you must take the exam. If you need an extension, please contact your fitness career advisor to discuss your options.
Gold Package Contents
The IFPA PFT Gold Package includes:
The Book on Personal Training Textbook
The Book on Personal Training Study guide
Instructional video set (7 DVD set)
Introduction to Personal Training DVD
How To Be a Successful Personal Trainer DVD
World-Class Training Session DVD
200 question (multiple-choice) pre-exam
105 question (multiple choice) proctored certification exam (mailed directly to proctor)
Free admission to two day workshop (when available)

The IFPA Personal Fitness Trainer Silver Package is our most popular PFT Certification package because it includes our 7 DVD Instructional Video Set. This disc echoes the concepts reviewed during our Personal Fitness Trainer Workshops so you can follow along in the comfort of your own home. For even more study materials, consider the next level and purchase our Gold PFT certification package.
All IFPA Certifications grant a 6-month study period after which you must take the exam. If you need an extension, please contact your fitness career advisor to discuss your options.
Silver Package Contents
The IFPA PFT Silver Package includes:
The Book on Personal Training Textbook
The Book on Personal Training Study guide
Instructional video set (7 DVD set)
200 question (multiple-choice) pre-exam
105 question (multiple choice) proctored certification exam (mailed directly to proctor)
Free admission to two day workshop (when available)

The Pre & Post Natal Instructor Certification is a maternity fitness plan designed specifically to meet the needs of women before, during and after pregnancy. This certification includes exercise, diet and overall lifestyle information in order to have a healthy pregnancy and a satisfying postpartum experience.
Be strong, comfortable, healthy, and active throughout your pregnancy with the IFPA’s Pre and Post-Natal Certification.

The IFPA Program Design Specialist Certification prepares you to design exercise programs for specific client populations, eliminate training plateaus, and achieve maximum results for your clients. This course covers 40 individual exercise programs to create your own personal training arsenal. The IFPA Program Design Specialist Certification is also designed to teach the student advanced principles in strength training program design.
This course focuses on Biomechanical variations to exercise and ways to manipulate training systems to efficiently train individuals at all levels of fitness. The Program Design Specialist expands upon the exercise principles, safety, and anatomy principles introduced through the Personal Trainer Certification. Successful students are expected to be capable of creating a wide range of safe and effective exercise programs that utilize a variety of exercises for all major groups and for the most important secondary muscle groups.

The IFPA Senior Fitness Specialist Instructor Certification is designed to teach the essentials foundation for teaching senior fitness classes. This revolutionary program provides the training techniques and safety guidelines that can be applied to all senior fitness training programs. Successful students are expected to be capable of leading senior adult individuals and group-training sessions while providing safe and effective training consultation, coaching and motivation.
After completion of this course you will have the knowledge necessary to call yourself a Senior Fitness Specialist and you will be able to teach people how to reach new levels of fitness and to maintain that fitness. There will be opportunities to work with older people in their homes, at a community center, retirement community, or gym. The focus of this course will be to develop a long-term plan to insure a high level of function and independence for your clients for many years to come.

The IFPA Special Populations Trainer Certification Course will provide you with the precise knowledge, skills and abilities that the personal trainer, sports medicine trainer and other medical and healthcare provides need in order to safely and effectively train people with 49 different chronic diseases, disabilities and dysfunctions. This includes all the top killers: Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer and Diabetes.

Every sport has unique power demands. Whether it’s explosive running and jumping, a quick burst out of the starting block, or contacting and moving an opponent, developing the right proportion of strength and speed is crucial to optimizing athletic power. With the revolutionary speed–strength–power continuum in Sports Power, you can determine the ideal mix of strength-based and speed-based power required for your sport.
Four to six week training programs designed for maximum results may be applied as presented or customized to individual needs using the seven-step program design process. Training exercises combine resistance training, plyometrics, speed drills, and cutting-edge power development techniques.
Train to excel in your sport. Every workout with Sports Power will put you another step ahead of the competition.

People are spending tens of thousands of dollars and MORE, on drugs, surgeries and medical treatments and getting no relief from chronic pain. You can provide safe and effective exercise prescriptions to eliminate that pain . . . PERMANENTLY! Most athletic injuries can only be healed through the safe and effective use of exercise prescriptions; drugs can provide temporary relief from pain, but because the underlying injury has not healed, the patient often increases the damage to the injured area. This sports medicine course will provide you powerful knowledge to truly help people eliminate pain, heal their injuries and return to full, optimal functionality!

The IFPA Sports Nutrition Specialist Certification teaches how nutritional intake can maximize exercise training and boost athletic performance. This course explains how the body uses food for fuel and the different roles that key nutrients play in making us strong and healthy. This course was created to provide an understanding of sports nutrition concepts to help you find the best ways to understand and wade through the endless sea of information and the tremendous amount of misinformation concerning nutrition. This program is designed to provide sound, scientifically based understanding of sports nutrition and the recommendations established from modern concepts and research.

The IFPA Strength and Sports Conditioning Specialist Certification presents principles and practices from twenty-two of the finest and most respected strength and conditioning coaches. The state of the art training prescriptions, modern training programs, workouts, and drills not only produce superior results, but also pave the way for a new era in athletic training.

The Certified Strength Ball Training Certification demonstrates key stability and medicine ball exercises, corrects common errors, and explains how variations of exercises can provide additional benefits.
The bottom line in real life and sport is that you are only as strong as your weakest link. For most people this is core, or torso, strength. How many people do you know with low-back pain? How many athletes have experienced abdominal, hip flexor, and groin strains? Strong legs and strong arms along with a weak core is an injury waiting to happen.
Strength ball exercises are fun to do because of the constant challenge. It is not only about lifting more weight. It is also about having fun exploring how to coordinate more complex exercises as they are presented to you. You will find endless variations of exercises. The constant challenge will motivate you, and athletes and fitness participants will respond very positively.

This is a practical, easy-to-use course that is designed to help you develop a specific exercise program for your fitness or sports-training needs using a simple rubber band. Many professionals and top athletes use resistance bands and tubing exercise.
Why?
*They allow you to add resistance in multiple directions - something
free weights and machines can't do.
*Strength, Speed and Power are maximized
*Every major muscle group is addressed
*Sport demands can be simulated
*Specific rehabilitation needs can be targeted
*Easy to adjust - provides resistance for any level of strength and ability
*Portable...the perfect travel workout!!

Take your clients’ strength training routine to the next level. With the IFPA Strength Training Specialist Certification you will gain the knowledge, skills and abilities required to help your clients gain more muscle mass, strength, and definition with proven training routines and nutritional guidelines. In this IFPA Strength Training Specialist Certification you learn a method of organizing training to achieve optimum gains in strength, mass, and definition without encountering the pitfalls of over-training, stagnation, and injury. Different phases such as anatomical adaption, hypertrophy, muscle definition, maximum strength, and transition are manipulated according to individual training goals.

The IFPA Tai Chi Instructor Certification program teaches the golden moves of the ancient art of Tai Chi. This program produces a level one Tai Chi Instructor ready to lead Tai Chi classes and build a profitable clientele.

The IFPA Women's Fitness Specialist Certification is designed to give you another powerful weapon in your fitness arsenal. Since men and women are so fundamentally different it is not beneficial for women to follow one of current fitness models that are based on the male paradigm. The Women's Fitness Specialist Certification goes beyond this male-based system by taking in account the physical, mental, emotional, and social differences between the two sexes. This groundbreaking model will open new doors for any professional working with women in a health and fitness setting.
This extensive course will provide you with invaluable advice, information, and exercise that will be extremely useful in a wide variety of circumstances. This knowledge will provide you a platform from which you can elevate yourself far and above the realm of the "typical" personal trainer. If applied correctly, this course can make you extraordinary.
The IFPA Women's Fitness Specialist course is designed to provide a sound, scientifically based understanding of concepts and recommendations related to training women. Typically women are given training programs that are gender based. This course will better prepare the fitness professional to design programs that not only motivate women but also take into account their physical psychological, social, and emotional differences. Secondarily, this course will examine the different stages of a woman's life, provide prescriptions and modifications for adolescents, pregnant mothers, postpartum women, and menopausal women. Finally, the Women's Fitness Certification will take an in depth look at training female athletes and preventing the female triad (Osteoporosis, eating disorders, and menopause). This course, like all IFPA courses, will raise the professional standard for the fitness industry.

The IFPA Certified Yoga Instructor course describes the qualities and knowledge yoga instructors need in order to be competent and effective teachers. With practical and detailed instruction, tips, and tools, this course provides information on how to teach yoga with strategies for working with students of varying abilities. It helps develop the attributes of registered instructors who facilitate students' learning and awareness in the practice of yoga.

The IFPA Youth Fitness Instructor Certification is designed to teach the student the basic concepts and principles that are essential to developing safe and effective fitness training programs for the healthy child and young adult. Successful students are expected to be capable of leading one-on-one fitness training sessions that address the goals and objectives of the individual being trained while providing safe and effective training consultation, coaching and motivation.